"Not My Brand Of Hope" - A must read regarding Obama...

Yup. That's all I needed to see to confirm the author is a moron...

Cool

Nothing changes unless the people change it...and then they get complacent...and it goes back to the rich running everything. It's the circle of democracy.

There are going to be Pah-lenty of people not voting for Obama for their own reasons and I suppose timetravel is as good of a reason as any.

...i see the children are still out in full force here, (with a little racism thrown in for good measure). Well, thanks for both of your responses.

Obama and the campaign, and supporters, have NOT been going around portraying him as a "saint" or anything like it -- so where does this religious meme come from? The term 'cult', which could easily have been applied to the MUCH more frenzied support for Bobby Kennedy in 68 (there's NO comparison) doesn't answer the question -- it exemplifies the problem.

Clearly any notion of idealism and enthusiasm, any notion of politics as anything better than a dirty and necessary chore, any 'pretense' (since ONLY pretense is ever possible) of a politics of hope, or any kind of idealism, is despised.

In the GE, I would expect Repukes and the RW generally to use the EXACT same meme against Obama -- the appeal to cynicism is one of the MOST ENTICING of the Obama-bashing demi-urges.

Others will claim he projects some kind of extraordinary hypocrisy, but the PURE PROJECTION of this "Saint Obama" stuff is obviously NOT reflective of external reality, only of an appeal to cynicism

Sure, I'm not "anglo" white, for I have Native American blood. But this is not known to anyone on the street. To them I am Italian, or Jewish; a white boy. And that's how life has treated me. But that still didn't get me out of the ghetto.

So why should I not be offended by this; the thought that I will vote for Barack Obama to satisfy some self-indulgent washing of my hands for the sins of America's past atrocities?

I have no such illusions about the true nature of racism in modern day American society. To the contrary, I've seen it. I stand with my friends, of any race, creed, or color in full throated defiance for bigotry, no matter who the perpetrator might be.

Those who would deny my authenticity so haughtily, I find, care not for change, but embrace the status-quo. They care not for such support, because the status-quo benefits them in some way, and I find that quite unfortunate.

I hope they can try to understand and accept what Obama and his supporters have to offer.

Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution.

Go figure?

Just thought it was interesting.

A MUST READ for sure...here's a snipet<><>Feb. 5, 2008--From the beginning of his presidential campaign, which unofficially began with the release of his second book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack

Obama has been positioned as an underdog against the Clinton machine. Now, with polls showing him in a virtual dead heat with Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media has

constructed his early success as a David-over-Goliath narrative that proves that ordinary people have the power to slay the beast that is Washington through a radical

politics of hope. Unfortunately, the Obama campaign has perverted the concept of hope by wedding it to a dangerous politics of compromise, concession and cunning.

Within the black faith tradition that Obama appeals to, hope is the belief that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, our circumstances can be transformed into

something previously unimaginable. It is this notion of hope—coupled with organized resistance from the people catching the most hell—that led to the end of slavery,

Jim Crow, and apartheid. In Obama's corporate-sponsored universe of meaning, however, hope is not the predicate for radical social change, but an empty slogan that

allows for a slick repackaging of the status quo.


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